Jersey Shore Science Fair 2026
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The Jersey Shore Science Fair (JSSF) has been held at Stockton University since 1975. It is one of fourteen local fairs that feed into the Delaware Valley Regional Science Fair (DVSF) which then leads to the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).
Each year, the JSSF attracts over 600 students from over 40 schools from our state's coastal counties (Cape May, Atlantic, Ocean and Monmouth). Students compete in fifteen categories ranging from biological sciences, to engineering, to behavioral science. The JSSF follows the rules and guidelines of the the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).
This year, sixty HTHS students traveled to Stockton University in Galloway, NJ to present their research and engineering designs to a panel of judges. Our students represented HTHS very well at the fair, and 29 advanced to DVSF. View the 2025 JSSF Program Here.
9th Grade Participants
Eric Guo
Awarded 2nd Place in category - Physics
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
10th Grade Participants
Vedant Awasthi - "The Impact of Thiamine Supplementation on Behavioral Hallmarks in Drosophila melanogaster with Huntington’s Disease"
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Medicine & Health
Maya Baireddy - "Analysis and Modeling of Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Mergers"
Awarded 1st Place in category - Earth & Space Science
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Lucas Brinster - "Assessment of Cold Shock as a Modulator of Gustatory Plasticity in C. elegans"
Awarded 1st Place in category - Zoology
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Jadielynn Chen - "The Effects on the Mass of Drosophila melanogaster When Fed 7% Ethanol"
Sehee "Christine" Cho - "Predicting Land Surface Temperature in Urban Heat Islands Using a Convolutional Neural Network"
Awarded 1st Place in category - Computer Science
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Caden Cregg-Wedmore - "The Effect of Curcumin on the Efficiency of Chloramphenicol Terminating Pseudomonas fluorescens"
Kiersten Cygal - "Effect of differing salt concentrations in local environments on populations of Dugesia tigrina according to their tolerance and behavior"
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Environmental Science
Hritika Dorai - "Effect Ultraviolet Light, Blue Light, and Infrared Light has on the number of eggs produced by the Drosophila melanogaster"
Jody Gan - "The impact of different concentrations of isopropanol alcohol on Rhodococcus rhodochrous’s ability to degrade Polyethylene Terephthalate"
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Microbiology
Lorelei Gaus - "Effect of Various Collagen Protein Supplements and a Red Light Source on Dugesia Tigrina Head Blastema Regeneration Rates"
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Medicine & Health
Akshit Gupta - "The Effects of Varying Amounts of Gibberellic Acid (GA3) on the Stem Diameter and Height of a Tagetes Erecta when Influenced by Thermotropism"
Awarded 3rd Place in category - Botany
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Jerry Huang - "Effect of exposure to sub-freezing temperature on memory degradation in Dugesia tigrina"
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Medicine & Health
Mischa Jain - "Curcumin and Salicylic Acid as Natural Alternatives for S. epidermidis Treatment"
Awarded 3rd Place in category - Microbiology
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Zayan Keezhana - "Effect of the Herbicide Dicamba on Green Algae Volvox barberi Growth Rate"
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Environmental Science
Aumrit Khanwani - "Effect of Electrolyte Chemical Compounds in Common Sports Drinks (Trisodium Citrate, Monopotassium Phosphate, and Brilliant Blue FCF) on Planaria Regeneration Rates"
Ashwin Kolli - "Effects of Salicylic Acid on the Regeneration Rate of Dugesia tigrina"
Awarded 2nd Place in category - Environmental Science
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Julia Mason - "A Study of the Growth of Staphylococcus epidermidis after Independent and Combination Treatments of Red Light, Chlorophyll, and Acetic Acid Therapy"
Awarded 2nd Place in category - Microbiology
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Alexander Mazurczyk - "The Effect of Vibration on Planarian Regeneration Speed"
Andrei Mitchell - "Shoes That Make The Transition To Barefoot Shoes Smooth And Injury-Free"
Awarded 3rd Place in category - Engineering
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Alex Oh - "How Topological Surface States Affect Thermoelectric Properties, Measured in (Bi1-xInx)2Se3 Thin Films Using Arduino and LabVIEW"
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Physics
Rehan Pagarkar - "The Effect of Varying pH Levels on the Efficiency of Calcium Alginate-Encapsulated Catalase Enzymes in Hydrogen Peroxide Solutions"
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Chemistry
Shiv Patel - "The Effects of Varying Levels of C. cyminum on the Regeneration of Cells in Dugesia Tigrina"
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Zoology
Joshua Reyes - "The Effect of Brief Exposure to White Light on the Phototactic Response of Brown Planaria (Dugesia tigrina) Across Different Spring Water pH Levels"
Awarded 3rd Place in category - Zoology
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Timothey Saks - "Analysis of Monoterpene Fragrances’ Effects on the Proliferation of Staphylococcus epidermidis"
Kanata Sasaki - "The Analysis and Impact of Using Chlorophyll Liquid at Different Life Cycles of the Wisconsin Fast Plant"
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Botany
Aarush Shah - "5-HTP Induced in Planarians’ Effects on Cellular Regeneration"
Mustafa "Alp" Tanyel - "Effect of Fatty Acid Supplementation of Alzheimer's Disease in C. elegans"
Awarded 3rd Place in category - Medicine & Health
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Addison Vincelli - "The Neuroscience of Memory: A Study of the Correlation Between Working Memory Stimulus and Theta Wave Activity"
Awarded 2nd Place in category - Behavioral & Social Sciences
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Elizabeth Whittle - "Comparison of U.S. Wind Power and Fossil Fuel Energy Capacity and Land Usage"
Awarded 2nd Place in category - Computer Science
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Sriyan Yarlagadda - "Using Different Machine Learning Models to Predict Exoplanets and Comparing their Accuracy"
Awarded 3rd Place in category - Earth & Space Science
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Arianna Zilioli - "A Study Into The Effect of Natural Pesticides on Vanessa cardui and Their Choice of Diet"
11th Grade Participants
Anabelle Ahteck - "SkeleSens: An Acoustic-Based Sensor Using a Hidden Markov Model for Hand Gesture Recognition"
Awarded 3rd Place in category - Engineering
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Rohan Arni - "Analysis of the Structure of Fast Radio Burst Signals Using Variational Autoencoders"
Awarded 3rd Place in category - Physics
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Suvit Asnani - "Efficacy of a Custom 3-D Printed Patellar Support to Reduce Patellar Mobility"
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Engineering
Maya Bhasin - "Prediction of Next-Day Fire Spread With Weather Data and NDVI: Comparing Different Models"
Awarded 2nd Place in category - Computer Science
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Henry Cantor - "Novel method for concussion detection in high school athletes"
Awarded 1st Place in category - Engineering
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Sunkalp Chandra - "Detection of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) using Retinal AI Foundation Models"
Awarded 1st Place in category - Medicine & Health
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
John Chang - "Satellite-Based System for Arsenic Contamination Detection "
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Earth & Space Science
Divyam Dave
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Biochemistry
Sophia Gao
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Earth & Space Science
Surya Gedipudi
Aarthi Gunasekeran
Awarded 1st Place in category - Environmental Science
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Rahul Gupta - "HELIOS: Hybrid Enhanced Learning for Integrated Operational Sun-Weather Forecasting"
Awarded 1st Place in category - Earth & Space Science
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Ayon Hajra
Awarded 2nd Place in category - Behavioral & Social Sciences
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Niyel Hassan - "Integrative Multiomics Analysis for Alzheimer's Disease Subtyping and Biomarker Discovery"
Awarded 1st Place in category - Computer Science
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Emily Kim - "The Effects of Phenytoin on Germline Stem Cell Health in Wild-Type Drosophila melanogaster"
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Medicine & Health
Vincent Li - "Effect of NSAIDs on Ovary Size in Piwi-NT Mutants as a Metric for Stem Cell Proliferation"
Awarded 2nd Place in category - Medicine & Health
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Urvi Patel - "Impact of Dissolved Organic Carbon on UV-C Bacterial Inactivation Efficacy of Water"
Abhiansh Pathak - " Using Economic Indicators To Create a Predictive Model of Future CO2 Emissions in the United States"
Awarded 2nd Place in category - Mathematics
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Haley Ryan - "Investigating Nicotinamide Mononucleotide’s Impact on Piwi Pathways and Germline Stem Cell Dynamics in Drosophila To Address Reproductive Aging"
Saketh Satti - "Accounting for Linguistic Diversity when Detecting Mental Illnesses through Social Media Posts"
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Behavioral & Social Sciences
Ritwik Singh - "Adaptive Blade Pitch Control: A Novel Approach to Increasing Wind Turbine Efficiency"
Awarded 1st Place in category - Physics
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Dorisa Sun - "A Boost of Dopamine?: Blue light on alpha-synuclein aggregation in C. elegans and D. melanogaster dopaminergic neurons"
Awarded Honorable Mention in category - Microbiology
Aarav Upadhyay - "Yevla: A Novel Cost-Effective UAV for Search and Rescue Operations"
Kelly Yuan - "Development and Drug Release Analysis of Long-acting Cariprazine Micro- and Nano-crystals"
Awarded 1st Place in category - Chemistry
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
12th Grade Participants
Suchit Basineni - "El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation Impact on Hurricanes North Atlantic Basin"
Awarded 2nd Place in category - Earth & Space Science
Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)
Saathvik Gubbala - "A Novel Ensemble Learning Approach Integrating Structural MRI Data for Accurate ADHD Diagnosis and Behavioral Assessment"
Kriti Srivastava
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